Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton -
Man
Quotes
165 Sourced Quotes
View all G. K. Chesterton Quotes
Source
Report...
Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
An archaeologist is a man who studies old things and finds they are new.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have
any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
Apparently a scientist is a man who surveys all the sciences, without any particular study of them, and then gives expression to his own moral principles or prejudices.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
G. K. Chesterton
Source
Report...
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
G. K. Chesterton
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
G. K. Chesterton
Creative Commons
Born:
May 29, 1874
Died:
June 14, 1936
(aged 62)
More about G. K. Chesterton...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes